Assessment and Management of Hurricane Damaged Timberland by Alan Long, Jarek Nowak, Chris Demers, Rick Williams, Nicole Strong, Jib Davidson, John Holzaepfel

“…It provides guidance to forestland owners for assessing severe storm damage, handling salvage operations and timber sales, minimizing potential impacts of other disasters after the storm, dealing with financial issues such as income tax casualty losses, and altering management plans. …”
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Assessment and Management of Hurricane Damaged Timberland by Alan Long, Jarek Nowak, Chris Demers, Rick Williams, Nicole Strong, Jib Davidson, John Holzaepfel

“…It provides guidance to forestland owners for assessing severe storm damage, handling salvage operations and timber sales, minimizing potential impacts of other disasters after the storm, dealing with financial issues such as income tax casualty losses, and altering management plans. …”
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Security of Physical Library Materials and Utilisation: A Case Study of National Teachers College Kabale. by Arineitwe, Doreen

“…Library collections at NTC Kabale can be threatened not just by theft and vandalism, but also by disasters (e.g., fire or flood) and damage from careless handling or poor environmental conditions. …”
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Le projet de paysage comme dispositif d’éveil et de prise de conscience du risque by Hoshino Yuji 星野裕司

“…Major public works to combat disasters are very often designed from a strictly technical point of view radically transforming landscapes in response to a maximum level of risk without consideration for their potential social value and their importance in the socialisation of the local populations they are intended to protect. …”
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Understanding, anticipating and managing health risks linked to climate migration by François Gemenne

“…These migration movements are driven by sudden disasters (storms, floods, etc.) and incremental changes (rising sea levels, soil impoverishment, etc.) that are heightening the vulnerability of certain regions. …”
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Mechanism of a Hair Cell Bioinspired Sensor with Ultrasensitivity to Weak and Low Frequency Vibration Signals by L. J. Liu, Y. Lei

“…Although significant progresses have been made in sensor technology, it is still a challenging task to develop ultrasensitive sensors to monitor very weak and low frequency vibration signal for early warning of natural disasters and efficient structural health monitoring of infrastructures. …”
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Legal Vacuums: The Challenge of Protection for Climate Refugees by Ahmad Sabirin, Anandayu Pavita Bayuaji, Dinda Keumala

“…Climate change has triggered massive migrations known as climate refugees, individuals who have been forced to leave their homes due to natural disasters and deteriorating environmental conditions. …”
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Research on Intelligent Evaluation Model of Railway Internationalized Earthquake Emergency Rescue Talents Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy Theory by Jin Jing, Yang Yu, Jiang Yuxin

“…Earthquakes occur frequently in the 21st century and cause a large number of casualties; induced secondary geological disasters will cause more serious casualties. How to reasonably deal with the earthquake disaster to carry out emergency rescue work is becoming increasingly urgent; the ability level of earthquake disaster emergency rescue personnel is directly related to the follow-up relief effect. …”
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An Evaluation of the Resilience of Cities to Natural Hazards (Metropolis of Tabriz) by Parichehr Mesri Alamdari

“…The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the resilience of cities to natural disasters. The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of methodology. …”
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The Important Step for European Integration: “Council of Europe” and the Matter of Turkey’s Membership to Council by Ali Servet Öncü

“…After World War II, Europeans set up several organizations both not to suffer similar disasters anymore and to become more powerful against the Soviet Union making its power felt in Europe day by day. …”
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Gambaran Kesiapsiagaan Perawat dalam Manajemen Bencana di Puskesmas Kota Padang by Elvi Oktarina, Fiziola, Fitri Mailani

“…More specifically, 58% had good knowledge of disaster management, 74.6% displayed a positive attitude, and 68.8% practiced good disaster management techniques. …”
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La résurgence/convergence du triptyque « catastrophe-résilience-adaptation » pour (re)penser la « fabrique urbaine » face aux risques climatiques by Béatrice Quenault

“…This article attempts firstly to precise both the definition and the epistemological frame of resilience and its complex links with the afferent notions of vulnerability and adaptation in a context of ineluctable climatic disasters. It shows why the adoption of a systemic perspective, i.e. complex and dynamic, of resilience can offer a pertinent frame, under specific conditions, to envisage sustainable futures for urbanized territories faced with present and forthcoming climate risks. …”
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Berço manuelino from the wreck of Santiago by Pawel Kardasz

“…Berço manuelino Durr 876 witnessed one of the most famous and tragic maritime disasters of the 16th century, described in numerous accounts. …”
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Limiting the Carbon Footprint of an Enterprise: Calculation Methods and Solutions by Svetlana Ivanova, Elena Zhidkova, Alexander Prosekov

“… The importance of the carbon footprint problem is determined by its role in global warming and climate change, which lead to various negative consequences (heavy rains, droughts, floods, other climatic disasters), as well as threaten human health and well-being. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION OF PANDEMIC EPISTEMOLOGY by Imam Wahyudi, Rangga Kala Mahaswa

“…This article contains two common perspectives on pandemics: naturalistic perspective, which views pandemics either as individual microscopic entities or as a life process; and socio-constructivist, which views pandemics as non-natural disasters and public discourse consensus. The second view is getting more public attention because of its closeness to sociological experiences amid information uncertainty, which formed from the prevalence of disinformation, fake news, knowledge vulnerabilities, and society’s digital-virtual freedom. …”
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Risk Perception and Key Beliefs on Business Adaptation Behavior of Family Farmers: Empirical Evidence from Sichuan Province, China by Yu Mou, Xiaofeng Li

“…Family farmers face various business risks, including natural disasters, policies, technology adoption, and market uncertainties. …”
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The Resilience of Public Policies in Economic Development by Gonzalo Castañeda, Omar A. Guerrero

“…This scenario takes place, for example, when unanticipated events such as natural disasters or political turmoil obstruct the use of resources to advance certain policy issues, e.g., infrastructure or labor reforms. …”
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Study on the Mechanical Properties of Flexible Prefabricated Highway Structural Systems considering the Effect of Two-Way Fluid-Structure Interaction by Liang Huang, Wenbo Ma, Haotian Li, Shizhan Xu, Zebin Song, Yujie Hou

“…The rainfall often causes changes in the physical performance of the embankment, which leads to disasters such as embankment collapse and road surface settlement and cracking. …”
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Evaluation of Sanandaj city vulnerability to earthquake using classification tree analysis (CTA) model by shahrivar rostaei, rahim heydari chyaneh, ayoub zoghi

“…As cities become more physically in structure and demographically wider, the rate of crises is also increasing consequently, and cities become more vulnerable to natural disasters for a variety of reasons, including economic and cultural poverty, fault alignment and non-compliance to regulations of earthquake-related issues.  …”
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La résurgence/convergence du triptyque « catastrophe-résilience-adaptation » pour (re)penser la « fabrique urbaine » face aux risques climatiques by Béatrice Quenault

“…This article attempts firstly to precise both the definition and the epistemological frame of resilience and its complex links with the afferent notions of vulnerability and adaptation in a context of ineluctable climatic disasters. It shows why the adoption of a systemic perspective, i.e. complex and dynamic, of resilience can offer a pertinent frame, under specific conditions, to envisage sustainable futures for urbanized territories faced with present and forthcoming climate risks. …”
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